Michael A. De Leon is a graphic designer by day, but wears many hats in his off time. In 2004, after several years of covering the Spurs, he started Project Spurs, a Spurs team fansite as an outlet to provide content to Spurs fans, while continuing to write for himself and learning the ins and outs of online publishing and web design. He has since built a writing team and started a popular weekly Spurs podcast called the Spurscast.

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Finding the lineup that sticks

While the San Antonio Spurs haven’t overhauled their roster this offseason, they have made

significant changes that could affect the lineup this season.

Gone are Roger Mason Jr., Keith Bogans, Ian Mahinmi, and Malik Hairston but James Anderson and Tiago Splitter are likely to make you forget they ever played for the Spurs.

Mason and Bogans were rotation players last season, with Bogans even starting a few games. Hairston just couldn’t crack the rotation.

Last season, when Spurs’ coach Gregg Popovich was trying to find the right mix of players to put in his starting five, News 4 WOAI’s Humberto Cervera quipped “He’s just throwing stuff at the wall and trying to find out what sticks.”

Unfortunately for Popovich, nothing ever stuck.

This year, however, I don’t forsee him having to throw stuff at walls for long. With the amount of talent on this team, there are a lot of intriguing starting combinations.

Splitter, DeJuan Blair and Antonio McDyess are all very capable of starting next to Tim Duncan in the post.